Geotechnical slope analysis
This reference book gives a complete overview of the developments in slope engineering in the last 30 years. Its multi-disciplinary, critical approach and the chapters devoted to seismic effects and probabilistic approaches and reliability analyses, reflect the distinctive style of the original. Sub...
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AK Leiden, The Netherlands London
CRC Press
2010
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Table of Contents:
- Aims and overview : slopes, geology and materials
- Basic geotechnical concepts
- Performance indicators and basic probability concepts
- Limit equilibrium methods I :planar failure surfaces
- Limit equilibrium methods II : general slip surfaces and beyond critical equilibrium
- Stress-deformation analyses and their role in slope analysis
- Natural slope analysis considering initial stresses
- Plasticity and shear band analyses : a brief review
- Earthquake effects and seismic slope analysis
- Probabilistic approaches and reliability analyses
- Case studies of urban slope stability
- Summing up